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Female Genital Mutilation is A-OK
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021043.php
May 16, 2008
Egyptian Parliament: Female Genital Mutilation is A-OK
[UPDATE: Or is it?]
UPDATE: Jihad Watch reader Anonymous has kindly alerted me to this MEMRI blog post, "Egyptian People's Council Nixes Sections Of New Children's Law," May 16. It says, "However, the People's Council did decide to ratify the section banning female circumcision."
This flatly contradicts the Ynet story below. So what did the People's Council actually do? If anyone knows, please email me at director[at]jihadwatch.org.
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The lukewarm condemnation of this practice by a group of Islamic scholars in Cairo in 2006 got enormous international publicity. Will this? What do you think?
"Egyptian Parliament Okays Female Genital Mutilation," from Israel National News, May 16 (thanks to Pamela):
(IsraelNN.com) Conservatives in the Egyptian parliament have made female genital mutilation (circumcision) legal again in Egypt. The conservatives succeeded in striking several laws that had been passed by the parliament's religious Shura Council in the past. The laws canceled also include a law limiting marriage age to 18 and up, a law permitting a mother to register a child on her name and a law allowing neighbors of a family that beats its children to report the beatings to the police....
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